Yeah, the world would swing if I were king. Can I help it if I still dream time to time?
TOM PETTYMy sister got lucky, married a yuppie, and took him for all he was worth. Now she’s a swinger dating a singer, I can’t decide which is worse.
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Music is probably the only real magic I have encountered in my life. There’s not some trick involved with it. It’s pure and it’s real. It moves, it heals, it communicates and does all these incredible things.
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Music really isn’t supposed to be perfect. It’s all about people relating to each other and doing something that’s really from the soul. It must come from the soul.
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Oh yeah, alright, take it easy baby, make it last all night. She was an American Girl.
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I’ve got a room at the top of the world tonight. I can see everything tonight.
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Running down a dream… working on a mystery… going wherever it leads.
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I have never been comfortable being the front man.
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I don’t think it’s a good attitude in your life to feel that you have to be rich to have self-esteem.
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You believe what you want to believe. You see, you don’t have to live like a refugee.
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What I’ve learned about marriage: You need to have each other’s back; you have to be a kind of team going through life.
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Somewhere, somehow, somebody must have kicked you around some. Tell me, why you want to lay there, revel in your abandon?
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I never could have dreamed that her heart was so wicked, but I keep coming back because it’s so hard to kick it.
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You belong among the wildflowers You belong in a boat out at sea You belong with your love on your arm You belong somewhere you feel free.
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I don’t understand the ones that have no sense of hope and invest in hate. That’s not gonna work out, you know? It’s a waste of your time!
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Time to move on, time to get going. What lies ahead I have no way of knowing. But under my feet, baby, grass is growing.
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As we celebrate mediocrity, all the boys upstairs want to see. How much you’ll pay for what you used to get for free.
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